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The Honey Bee Stamps Fall Release has been happening all week, the fantastic fall products are now available in the shop. To celebrate the new release, we are having the Happy Fall Y’all Blog Hop. So grab your cup of Pumpkin Spice Latte, or whatever cozy drink you love and hop along with us to get you in the fall frame of mind!

Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun prizes!!! We will be giving away TWO $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store.

Winners will be posted on our blog Monday, September 25th.

Have you all checked out the absolutely FABULOUS new release products?! I mean, really. Sunflowers, pumpkins, coffee cups, critters… There’s seriously something for every style and preference. My weekly blogging day for Honey Bee happens to fall on Fridays, so I haven’t posted any release creations yet… which means that I have three projects to share with you today! Let’s get started with the details!

For this first project, I decided to use Seasonal Sweeties and the coordinating dies to create a gloomy, but hopeful card… this one definitely reminds me of Eeyore, so it’s an homage to gray and darker gray. Ha! I started by die cutting and heat embossing the girl with the umbrella and her darling little pup from Seasonal Sweeties onto some watercolor paper, then watercoloring her with my Daniel Smith watercolors.

For the background, I stamped and heat embossed several of the little raindrop stamps included in the Seasonal Sweeties stamp set onto another A2 panel, then did a light blue gray watercolor wash for a gloomy sky background. I die cut some clouds from gray and pale blue shimmer paper to create some rain clouds, popping them up with dimensional adhesive. I added a strip of charcoal card stock at the bottom of the card front, to ground my little duo and create a sort of road for her to be standing on. I heat embossed the sentiment from Seasonal Sweeties onto the same charcoal card stock and used the coordinating dies for the calligraphic words. I popped both my girl and the greeting up with dimensional foam adhesive and scattered some Galaxy sequins about to add some more texture.

For my second project for today, I used the lovely sunflower stamps from Happy Fall Y’all to create this summery project. (It’s been so HOT around here… Fall teased us for a couple of weeks, but then summer came back in full force last week. I am not a fan.) I die cut and stamped several of the pretty sunflowers onto (more) watercolor paper and again watercolored them with my Daniel Smith watercolor paints.

For the background, I wanted a subtle pattern, and sunflowers remind me of a tidy little farm with rolling hills and a chicken coop, and a chicken coop reminds me of chicken wire… and the Hexagon stencil set reminds me of chicken wire. Perfect! (Sometimes it’s tiring being in my head haha!) I blended some Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink over the top of the stencil, concentrating the color in the bottom right corner, because I wanted it to gradually fade away from my climbing sunflowers. I also die cut one of the coordinating word dies included in the Happy Fall Y’all, both in white card stock, but I put my Iced Spruce Oxide ink pad directly to the larger “fall” accent die cut to create a custom colored die cut that perfectly matched my chicken wire blending. After arranging my flowers and greeting just so, I added some NEW Fall Equinox sequins here and there to finish the card.

For my final project today, I have used Hey Pumpkin to create a little Halloween card. I’ll be honest. I’ve never made a Halloween card in my life up to this point. My nieces and nephews were too small to understand, and most kids (including my own) don’t really “get” the point of a card at such a tender age. But, my niece and nephew are finally old enough that I think it would be absolutely darling to have my kids send their cousins a Halloween card! And the new Hey Pumpkin set is simply precious. The little hat is optional, so you can make it a non-Halloween project… Plus, that pumpkin was a blast to color. I don’t naturally gravitate towards orange, but I am almost always pleased with the results when I do use it!

To start, I die cut and stamped the main image and the witch hat from Hey Pumpkin using Versafine ink and clear embossing powder, then colored it with my Zig markers. I knew I wanted to put the die cut onto a blended sky background, so I made sure to add some orange behind the trees and around the top edge of the die cut, because you know me and that little white edge…. it makes me twitchy haha.

For the background, I blended Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide inks (I’m in love with the new release colors!) down the front of a white A2 panel, then added the greeting from Hey Pumpkin using Versafine and clear embossing powder. I popped up the witchy die cut using dimensional foam adhesive and sprinkled on some of the new Enchanted Plum sequins.

Well, that’s all from me today! I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the fabulous inspiration from the Honey Bee Design team this week…. this release is just so amazing! All of the new products that we’ve been teasing you with are now available in the shop, so go get your shop on! But…..

Be sure to visit each blog & leave a comment, you don’t want to miss out on any of the fun prizes!!! We will be giving away TWO $50 gift cards to the Honey Bee Stamps store.

Good morning! Today, I’m getting back to my roots. Most of my posts center around an image that has been colored in some way. I found Zig markers about 2.5 years ago, then found Prismacolors, and I haven’t looked back since. But when I saw the new Southern Florals 1 and 2 from Wplus9’s most recent release, I knew that I absolutely had to have them, even though there was, gasp, no coloring involved. I have always adored Rifle Paper Company’s designs, and those beautiful stamps that Dawn designed just scream RPC!! I received the stamps last week, and almost immediately sat down and cranked out two different cards with them. This first project used the stamps from Southern Florals 1 with my Distress Oxide inks (I only have a few right now, because I wasn’t sure if I would truly *need* them all…. oh my, I most certainly do! The newest set is totally on their way to me after creating this project.)

I wanted to create my own custom pattern, but I wanted to make it on a colored backdrop, like in those pretty Rifle Paper Co wrapping papers. Now, there are ways of doing this that don’t require Oxide inks… stamping the image in white pigment ink first, then stamping the colored dye ink over the top, stamping everything on white card stock, then masking all of the images and blending color into the background, etc. But one of the qualities that drew me to the Oxide line was the ability to stamp on dark card stock, and so I thought this stamp set would be perfect to try this technique out on some colored cardstock!

Because I only have a select few of the Oxide line (and I hadn’t received the new set when I created this card), I had to do a little improvisation with the layering. Whenever I create a custom background pattern, I always start with the largest image first: in this case, the heart shaped pink flower from Wplus9’s Southern Florals 1. I stamped it in Worn Lipstick Oxide, then stamped the detail portion using white pigment ink from PTI. I added the foliage in Cracked Pistachio Oxide, the purple flower in Wilted Violet with leaves of Broken China, tiny little flowers in white pigment ink, and the little stamens in Spiced Marmalade. I was so thrilled with how vibrant the colors remained on my aqua card stock. A game changer for me, for sure!!

I used the Sentiment Splits dies and stamps from Papertrey Ink to create the nice little curved section on my card front. I stamped the greeting in Hero Arts’s Raspberry Jam ink, then popped the stamped panel up with dimensional adhesive.

The final touch was to add a cute little twine bow towards the top to add a bit more texture to the finished card.

That’s it! So simple, but the effect those Oxide inks have with that colored card stock…. gah. I’m in love. Excuse me while I go dig out all of my non-coloring stamp sets. Hope you are having a fantastic day, friends! I will be back tomorrow morning for the Honey Bee Stamps blog hop for their new release, which is totally mer-mazing!

Create something layered using your Concord and 9th products! For my project, I used the Pretty Petals stamps and dies to create a layered, dimensional project. I started by die cutting the main flower die from some plain white card stock, then using my blending tools to blend Worn Lipstick and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide inks on the die cut, adding some shimmer spray over the top to create the “velvety” effect achieved with the Oxide inks. I stamped the detail layer using Versamark ink, then sprinkled holographic embossing powder over the top and heated it with my heat gun. The pink center really pops even more with the added sparkly heat embossing! I also die cut the center of the Pretty Petals die from some sparkly gold glitter card stock and adhered it to the center with some dimensional adhesive.

For the greeting, I used the pretty new All About You dies to cut “thank you” from some aqua card stock. I stamped some of the flower centers from the Pretty Petals stamp set onto the white card base using Delicata Gold ink, then adhered the flower with dimensional adhesive. I finally added yet another layer by adhering the sentiment die cuts with more dimensional adhesive.

It’s a little outside of my normal color scheme and style, but I like the sunny, happy colors! Definitely something different. Now, it’s your turn! Create a project with at least two layers using your Concord and 9th products, then be sure to link it up to our blog to be entered to win the $25 gift certificate generously donated by Concord and 9th!

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